On Virtue Ethics

✍ Scribed by Rosalind Hursthouse

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has made notable contributions to this development, here presents a full exposition and defense of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics. She shows how virtue ethics can provide guidance for action, illuminate moral dilemmas, and bring out the moral significance of the emotions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
PART I. ACTION
1. Right Action
2. Resolvable Dilemmas
3. Irresolvable and Tragic Dilemmas
PART II. EMOTION AND MOTIVATION
4. Aristotle and Kant
5. Virtue and the Emotions
6. The Virtuous Agent's Reasons for Action
7. Moral Motivation
PART III. RATIONALITY
8. The Virtues Benefit their Possessor
9. Naturalism
10. Naturalism for Rational Animals
11. Objectivity
Bibliography
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